Thank you so much! Frustrating yet so simple.
Thanks! I can't go to sleep because it's been bugging me.
Thank you so much. It's fixed!
OMG thank you! You are a lifesaver!
Worked perfectly. I was going nuts trying to figure it out!
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"I then held the power n home button and it reset funnily enough..."

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This just happened to me for the first time, I noticed my phone was playing up a little before it happened, like when i hit the power button, the screen wouldn`t light up immediately, i had to hit it twice... then it shut off and wouldn`t turn on and even plugging it into the charger wouldn`t work...
I tried the POWER HOME buttons several times, (and i mean at least 15 tries) all for at least 30 seconds each time.. using different combinations, plugged into the PC, plugged into the main power, not plugged into anything.. I finally got it working by giving it a gentle knock on the side, I then held the power n home button and it reset funnily enough? (please don`t go try banging your expensive iphones because of what i said, but i`m just throwing my own experience out there to maybe help the tech`s suss the issue out?)

"To just reset your iphone 3g the iphone and as a result the iphone..."

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Yes you can reset your iphone 3g without the itunes some of the steps are as follow
1). "connect to itunes screen" then you have to turn it off so then your iphone is no more in the itunes mode.
2). then you have to just reset your iphone 3g the iphone and as a result the iphone 3g is restored to its original position.

"Do a hard reset (hold down home and sleep..."

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I am glad you have asked this question which is in the mind of lot of people especially apple users.the steps are mentioned hrein as follows:
1) plug your phone to your computer while running iTunes.
2) do a hard reset (hold down home and sleep)
3) wait for iphone to do its reset. (Apple logo goes off, comes back)
4) keep holding down buttons til phone resets once again! it will display a "recovery mode" screen 5)choose to a) restoring from backup or b)setup as new iphone
i hope it helps..tc.

"Do a hard reset (hold down home and sleep..."

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This is due to a lot of iphone apps being buggy. The fix is simple.
1) plug your phone to your computer while running iTunes.
2) do a hard reset (hold down home and sleep)
3) wait for iphone to do its reset. (Apple logo goes off, comes back)
4) keep holding down buttons til phone resets once again! it will display a "recovery mode" screen
5)choose to a) restoring from backup or b)setup as new iphone.

"Plug your iphone into your computer usb and open itunes..."

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Here`s how to fix it. First, plug your iPhone into your computer USB and open iTunes. Hold down home and sleep buttons, wait for the phone to reset and keeping holding down the buttons. Let it reset one more time and it will go into recovery mode. Then choose restore from backup or or setup as a new iphone.

Someone said: thank it work. Dude, i dont know who you are, but you are the best!! You just saved my butt!!. Thanks a ton. Thanx a million :-). I LOVE YOU!!!! I TRIED TO JAIL BREAK MY DADS NEW I PHONE 3G AND IT FROZE ON BLACK I THOUGHT I WAS SCREWED!!!!!THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!
XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD. Agh I'm so happy right now I thought I was going to have to buy a new phone thank you so so much for posting this and telling me how to fix it

Someone said: CAN U HLP ME PLZ?? MY PHONE IS STUCK IN RECOVERY MODE. I HAVENT BACKED UP MY PHONE IN QUITE SOME TIME. SINCE I JAILBROKE I HAVENT. NOW WHILE TRYING TO UPDATE AN APP IT WOULD NOT FINISH LOADING SO I SHUT PHONE OFF. THEN WOULDNT COME BACK ON. IS STUCK IN RECOVERY MODE. I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE ALL MY STUFF . WHAT CAN I DO?

Someone said: soo my iphone 4 is stuck in recovery mode. it basically has a charger followed by an arrow pointing to the iTunes icon. I tried the sleep mode along with pressing the home button countless times but its not working:// help pleaseeeeeeeeee

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